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United Nations The Next Four Years United Nations were an act deliberately shrouded in mystery for some time. While Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly has been the face of the band since initially conceiving them in 2005, the act avoided possible record contract violations and lawsuits from the actual United Nations with all-star members like Glassjaw's […]

Young Widows Easy Pain The fourth album from Louisville, Kentucky, noise-rock trio Young Widows is a suffocating aural submission hold that refuses to let up on your carotid artery. Easy Pain is all tension and menace, laden with reverb, distortion and migraine-inducing beats that deliver inspired reinventions of everything fans of metal-gaze (“Doomed Moon,” “Gift […]

Three Mile Pilot Maps EP Although San Diego’s Three Mile Pilot never actually broke up, for more than a decade it was the trio’s offshoots—namely Pinback and the Black Heart Procession—that took precedence. That all changed with the release of 3MP’s first album in 13 years, 2010’s The Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten, which […]

Turing Machine What Is The Meaning Of What This review originally ran in AP 287. Electronic-based music is heightened significantly when you leave the drum machine in the box and have a live drummer do his thing. This evident truth summarizes both the great sadness and immense joy marking Turing Machine’s third album: What Is […]